Didn’t know that Eddie Money’s real name was Edward Joseph Mahoney. I learned either late last year or early this year that "Two Tickets to Paradise" was written about the California Redwoods area, which I assume means Redwood National Park or Muir Woods or Big Basin, places like that. As a kid I just thought it was some jerk bragging about what a great lover he is or whatever.
And he was formerly a police officer.
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Yes a real NYC Irish copper. 🚓☘️
I think the recently read information reinforced the fact that he was an NYC police officer. He experiences the CA redwoods and feels so happy by beauty that he, a cop from NYC, writes this happy, celebratory song that becomes a big pop rock hit. It’s a nice story. Despite my criticism I like the song Two Tickets To Paradise. Someone told me when he first heard it on 📻 he thought it was “Two Ticks And A Pair of Dice.” I consider it in the same genre that brings to it Bruce Springsteen Patti Smith, Pat Benatar and a few others, including John Cougar. I closed my eyes once not too long ago listening to something YouTube had recommended: Isolated lead vocals of Van Halen’s David Lee Roth singing on a couple of VH hits. It dawned on me that Eddie Money, David Lee Roth and Huey Lewis had very similar sounding vocal deliveries and should all have by now covered one another’s material.
Eddie, Bruce, Pat, Patti, John, etc. have written a few anthems. I consider them bar-rock anthems. Patti Smith Because The Night (performed in YouTube link below on OGWT In 1978) is, for me, the same genre as Two Tickets.To Paradise ....
https://youtu.be/6OjW1TDANxk